Verizon Lectureship

The idea of launching a visiting professorship in business ethics stems from the University's mission "to create new knowledge within and across business and the arts and sciences and to educate creative, ethical, and socially responsible organizational leaders." A great synergy has emerged between Bentley and Verizon through this lecture series that explodes the cutting edge thinking from some of the most insightful and authoritative experts in the field of business ethics.

Educating the whole person necessarily includes exposing our students to the concepts of ethics. We firmly believe that business ethics will play a critical role in their future careers. One way in which the center builds their ethical knowledge base and promotes ethical business conduct is by hosting educational initiatives such as their Verizon Visiting Professorship in Business Ethics and Information Technology.

Through the generous support of Verizon Communications, Inc., we are able to advance the center’s work with this unique and valuable professorship.

About VerizonThe Visiting Professorship in Business Ethics at Bentley University is funded with the generous support of Verizon.

Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services. Verizon Wireless operates America’s largest and most reliable wireless network with more than 101 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 178,300 and in 2012 generated revenues of nearly $116 billion.

November 9, 2015UpComing EventDonna HicksWeatherhead Center for International AffairsHarvard University&Sandra WaddockCarroll School of ManagementBoston College

February 3, 2014The Six Ethical Dilemmas of Every Professional CareerKirk O. HansonExecutive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and John Courtney Murray SJ University Professor, Santa Clara UniversityLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 4, 2013Tenacity: The American Pursuit of Corporate ResponsibilityKenneth E. GoodpasterKoch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics, University of St. Thomas - Opus College of BusinessLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 6, 2012Globalization and its Challenges for Business in the 21st CenturyPatricia WerhaneThe Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Managing Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul UniversityLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 8, 2010Ethics of Risk Management in the Information AgeJohn R. Boatright, PhDRaymond C. Baumhart, S.J., Professor of Business Ethics, Graduate School of BusinessDirector, Graduate Certificate Program in Business Ethics, Loyola University, ChicagoLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 9, 2009Corporate Control of Information:Ethical Challenges and DilemmasGeorge Brenkert, PhDDirector, Georgetown University’s Business Ethics Institute and Professor of Business Ethics, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.Lecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 12, 2007Data, Dollars and the Unintentional Subversion of Human RightsThomas I. White, PhDHilton Professor of Business Ethics, Director of the Centerfor Ethics and Business, Loyola Marymount UniversityLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 13, 2006Corporate Excellence, Ethics and the Role of ITDeborah G. JohnsonOlsson Professor of Applied Ethics and Department Chair,Department of Science, Technology and Society, University of VirginiaLecture Monograph

March 29, 2004Information Technology and Intellectual PropertyNorman E. BowieElmer L. Andersen Chair in Corporate ResponsibilityCarlson School of Management, University of MinnesotaLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

April 1, 2002Leadership, Ethics, and the Information ImperativeRichard O. MasonCarr P. Collins Distinguished Professor of Management Information Sciences and Director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public ResponsibilityLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 5, 2001Ethics in Cyberspace: Have We Seen This Movie Before?Thomas DonaldsonMark O. Winkelman Professor at the WhartonSchool of the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Wharton Ethics ProgramLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

February 28, 2000Technology and Ethics: Privacy in the WorkplaceLaura P. Hartman, PhDGrainger Chair of Business Ethics at the University of WisconsinLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

March 22, 1999Business Ethics and the Information AgeRichard T. De George, PhDUniversity Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Business Administration,Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of KansasLecture MonographVideo of Lecture

Sponsored by the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, through the generous support of Verizon Corporation (formerly Bell Atlantic and NYNEX).

For further information, contact the Center for Business Ethics at 781.891.2981.